Keum Suk Gendry-Kim: My Friend Kim Jong Un, Kartoniert / Broschiert
My Friend Kim Jong Un
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- Übersetzung:
- Janet Hong
- Verlag:
- Drawn & Quarterly, 02/2026
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781770468221
- Umfang:
- 236 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 454 g
- Maße:
- 211 x 150 mm
- Stärke:
- 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 24.2.2026
- Hinweis
-
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Award-winning cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim demystifies the inscrutable North Korean leader
A woman falls over a thin black line, slicing her in two-half becoming North Korea, the other half becoming South. From the Island of Ganghwa, a seemingly idyllic rural paradise just an hour outside of Seoul, North Korea sits mere miles away, visible from cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's home and studio. It looms over her while she walks her dogs through the rice paddies. Artillery fire, helicopters, and sirens from a nearby military base paint her acoustic landscape. Gendry-Kim has written extensively about the pain and heartbreak experienced throughout Korea's recent history in her award-winning books Grass and The Waiting. In My friend Kim Jong-Un, Gendry-Kim looks not to the past, but to the present-to the man currently responsible for upholding the national divide.
Retracing his rise to power and uncovering his human side, Gendry-Kim explores the life of the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: from his birth to his international education, his tastes and hobbies, and his relationships. Gendry-Kim weaves her personal accounts from this process throughout the book, in her signature approach to personal nonfiction by including interviews with former South Korean president Moon Jae-in, North Korean defectors, researchers, journalists, Kim's former chef, and a friend from his boarding school days in Switzerland.
My Friend Kim Jong-Un carries a message of peace and attempts to make sense of an awful chapter in Korean history. Translated by the award-winning Janet Hong, My Friend... is a cautionary tale and education on what makes a dictator, at a time when these lessons are more relevant in the West than ever.